In my attempts to clear through my baking ingredients, before the van goes into storage, I’ve revisited a favourite swiss recipe, rosenkuchen, this week. I discovered this yeasted cake while visiting Lauterbrunnen last winter. In the original recipe the sweet, heavenly soft bread was filled...
How angelic do these buns look! I haven’t baked cupcakes for ages and I had a real hankering to make some over the last few days. We are in our final week of a four-week house sit in rural Lancashire, counting down to our winter...
One of the pleasures of travel is discovering local foods that aren’t necessarily well-known outside of the area. More often than not, savoury dishes are meat based so I miss out on those, but many places have regional breads, cakes and baked goods too. When...
These glossy little morsels are sharp and zesty with lemon and have a little crunch from the poppy seeds, they look so pretty and dainty. They still have that wonderful butteriness of regular madeleines, I just can’t get enough of it! As with my other...
Sometimes you have to step out of your comfort zone to experience new, exciting things. I received a tweet a fortnight ago asking if I would like to do a baking demonstration at one of the agricultural shows up in North Yorkshire. I was staying...
Do you remember the Strawberries and Cream Meringue Cake post from a few weeks ago? Well brace yourself, there’s now a chocolate version! Take some brownie-esque batter and top it with a cocoa meringue, bake it in two sandwich pans then fill it with some...
I’ve blogged Welsh Cakes before but I’m including them again as I made these to serve as a Welsh cream tea. Proving that all you need is a frying pan to make that quintessentially British treat, the cream tea. I had bought a tub of...
I’ve just got back to the real world after a week in the wilds of Wales. I’m now buried under a pile of photos to edit and blog posts to write, I hardly touched my computer for over a week! We stayed on farm campsites,...
I was so pleased with my cheese and onion scones I really wanted to make a vegan scone that would match it for flavour. I considered using vegan cheese but I don’t really have enough knowledge of them so I pondered alternatives. I came up...
The refreshing taste of elderflower syrup is the liquid embodiment of summer. It is the perfect non-alcoholic thirst quencher for long summer evenings, for picnics and outdoor entertaining. Not that it can’t be served alcoholic, make a delightful white wine spritzer with it for some...
It’s strawberry season! That only means one thing, summer! Glastonbury weekend {pah, not for me this year *wallows in self-pity*}, Wimbledon is dominating the tv channels {am I the only person who finds tennis a terrific bore?} and the supermarkets are stacked to...
Summer is finally here! Get those picnic blankets out and throw an impromptu picnic in the garden on a lush lawn or pick a lovely sunny day and pack a basket with goodies and go for an adventure. These super cheese and onion scones are...
An endless supply of free-range eggs and an Aga oven meant that meringues were definitely a pudding last week. I had been inspired to make big meringues after seeing some on a food stall while walking along Brick Lane in London. We rushed up the...
Here’s a perfect cake to slot into your repertoire, or print it out, fold it and slip it between the pages of one of your favourite recipe books, or is that just something I do? Why, you may ask? Well, apart from the fact that...
Ok, so this recipe requires an extra bit of equipment, an ice cream maker. They are a fun bit of kit to have tucked in the back of the cupboard and they don’t have to cost a fortune. The inexpensive basic ones {like this one}...
I couldn’t share my recipe for blueberry crumble slices and not follow it up with a rhubarb one. These slices are buttery and tart, sweet and crumbly, with a crunchy top. Made with freshly picked rhubarb they are comforting, homely bars, perfect as a warm dessert....
